Colombo: The total number of Indian nationals killed in Sri Lanka’s suicide blasts rose to 10 on Tuesday.A string of devastating suicide blasts tore through churches and luxury hotels across the country on Easter Sunday.“Regret to confirm the deaths of two more Indian nationals Mr. A. Maregowda and Mr. H. Puttaraju in the blasts in Sri Lanka on Sunday, taking the total number of Indian deaths in the tragedy to 10 as of now,” the Indian High Commission in Colombo tweeted on Tuesday.On Monday, the mission confirmed the deaths of four Indians – Vemurai Tulsiram, S.R. Nagaraj, K.G. Hanumantharayappa and M. Rangappa.On Sunday, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj identified three Indian nationals – K.M. Lakshminarayan, Narayan Chandrashekhar and Lakshmana Gowda Ramesh – as victims of the blasts.“Indian High Commission in Colombo has conveyed that National Hospital has informed them about the death of three Indian nationals,” she tweeted on Sunday.Also Read: Sri Lankan Govt Identifies National Tawheed Jamath as Outfit Behind BlastsKerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, on Sunday, also identified a Keralite, P.S. Rasina, among those killed in the deadly blasts. However, there was no confirmation about her from the Sri Lankan authorities.Among the Indians killed in the deadly blast there were four Janata Dal (Secular) workers from Karnataka, who were on a visit to Sri Lanka, chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy said on Monday in Bengaluru.The deceased are Ramesh, Chandrashekhar, Rangappa and Hanumantharayappa, he said.However, one JD(S) worker H. Shivukumar is missing.Sri Lanka observed a nationwide three-minute silence on Tuesday to pay homage to more than 300 people killed in the gruesome bombings, the country’s worst terror attack blamed on a local previously little-known Islamist outfit.Seven suicide bombers believed to be members of the National Tawheed Jamath (NTJ) carried out a series of devastating blasts that tore through three churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but police have so far arrested 24 people – mostly members of the NTJ – in connection with the blasts.
